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As well as creating manual backups

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Akeeba Backup 

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offers you the opportunity

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to automate the process

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to ensure that you will always have

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an up to date backup.

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Here on the control panel

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we can see an option called

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schedule automatic backup.

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If we scroll down

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we can see there is a 
Frontend Backup feature

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that is currently not enabled

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so we need to go back to the 
Control Panel to enable it.

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Select the system configuration

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at the bottom of the page

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and then the public api tab.

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Here we can enable the 
Frontend Remote backup

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and give it a secret word

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this should be

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a combination of upper and lower 
case characters and numbers.

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There is another option

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to enable the site to send you an email

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once this remote backup has completed.

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If I do not enter any details below

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this email will be sent to all

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Super Administrators on the web site.

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Click Save and close

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and return to the schedule automatic backups.

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I can see that the frontend 
backup feature is now enabled

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and there are five different 
methods available to me

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to peform this frontend backup.

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I am going to use a service 
called WebCron to automate it.

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WebCron is a service run by an 
external website called webcron.org

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So let's go to that site.

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webcron.org offers several services

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including uptime monitoring

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and something called an Online Cron.

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A cron is just a computer word

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for an action that takes place

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 at a specific time

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and that's what we want to do.

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Webcron.org is a commercial service

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that is exceedingly cheap.

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If we check their prices

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we can see

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that a cron that lasts about 180 seconds

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which should be enough to 
backup most web sites

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costs a fraction of a cent.

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in fact for just 1 Euro

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you can perform 1000 backups

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more than enough

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to do a backup a day for several years.

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So go ahead and signup

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it's free to signup

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and it includes

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some free credits so that you can 

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test the service out before committing.

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Once you have signed up 
and created your account

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go ahead and login.

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 We are now at the dashboard

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where we can create our cron.

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Select the new cron

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and give this cron a title.

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Then select the timeout

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and as I suggested 180 seconds

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is probably enough

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but we will be able to see later
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We now need the specific url

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that you want to execute.

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To find that return to your web site

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and here under the webcron.org options

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you will see the url.

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Simply select it

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and copy.

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Return to webron.org

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and paste.

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You do not need to enter 
the login or password.

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You now need to set

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the times and dates that this cron,

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this backup will take place.

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I want it to take place every year,

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every month, 

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every day of the month,

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every day of the week,

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and then I want it to take place

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sometime in the middle of the night

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when my web site's not busy.

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So I am going to select

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ten

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and then scroll down

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and submit.

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My cron has now been created

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and I can confirm that 
by clicking on the cron

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and here we can see it.

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You can now return to your web site.

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The web site will now perform backups

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on a regular basis

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every single day

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at in my case 1:10 in the morning.

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But remember

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the backup

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will still be stored on your web site

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so it's important

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to go the Manage Backups

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and select the backup

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and download it to your own computer.